MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - An American eel that a fisheries biologist believes swam
from the Atlantic Ocean into the Mississippi River and beyond has been
discovered in central Indiana’s White River.

The 30-inch-long female eel was found last week during a fish survey along
the White River in Muncie. Fisheries biologist Drew Holloway with Muncie’s
water quality office calls it “once-in-a-lifetime catch.”

Holloway tells The Star Press he believes the snake-like fish traveled from
the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda up the Mississippi to the Ohio River to
the Wabash River and into the White River.

The eel surfaced with other fish when Holloway applied an electric current
to the river’s waters during a fish population survey.